Good medicine and good music : a biography of Mrs. Joe Person, patent remedy entrepreneur and musician, including the complete text of her 1903 autobiography /

Good medicine and good music : a biography of Mrs. Joe Person, patent remedy entrepreneur and musician, including the complete text of her 1903 autobiography / David Hursh and Chris Goertzen.

"Alice Morgan Person was a North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but overcame by selling patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her complete and previously unpublished autobiography. In addi...

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Main Author: Hursh, David, 1962-
Other Authors: Goertzen, Chris, Person, Alice Morgan, 1840-1913
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, ©2009.
Subjects:
Person, Alice Morgan, > 1840-1913.
Businesswomen > North Carolina > Biography.
Folk musicians > North Carolina > Biography.
Women folk musicians > North Carolina > Biography.
Patent medicines > North Carolina > History.
Folk music > North Carolina > History and criticism.
Nonprescription Drugs > history > North Carolina > Biography.
History, 19th Century > North Carolina > Biography.
History, 20th Century > North Carolina > Biography.
Music > history > North Carolina > Biography.
North Carolina > Social life and customs > 19th century.
North Carolina > Biography.

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